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the chair recognizeses the gentleman from texas, mr. naggel bauer for a motion -- request, i mean. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to associate myself -- i think mr. king -- >> move to strike the last -- >> strike the last word. >> recognized for five minutes. >> with that, i think mr. king has a response to comments that have been made. and i yield my time to him. >> i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding. and in response to the rebuttals that have been offered here, i would point out to the committee that 25% of the nutrition assistance program in puerto rico is cash benefits. 75% of it is processed some other way. most of it, if not all of it, by processing electronically. and here's the information that i have, going into this hearing this morning. prior to 2006, many merchants could not reasonably acquire the technology to process ebt cards to accept s.n.a.p. benefits. but in 2006, the commonwealth's legislature replaced the excised tax on imports with an island-wide sales tax. to implement and administer the sales tax, e
the chair recognizeses the gentleman from texas, mr. naggel bauer for a motion -- request, i mean. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to associate myself -- i think mr. king -- >> move to strike the last -- >> strike the last word. >> recognized for five minutes. >> with that, i think mr. king has a response to comments that have been made. and i yield my time to him. >> i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding. and in response to the rebuttals that have...
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. >> i appreciate my friend from texas's concerns, i have to remind everyone that we have achieved a balance in the bill, and it's in the best interest of the bill and successful reform to maintain it. we have taken under consideration to try to achieve the balance and establish the minimum. the bill -- i realize we will fight on the skirmish line all the way back to atlanta, and we will, so with that, i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and in the spirit of the ranking member. and his comments i yield. >> and i would remind members this deal has been in the law since 1982. and it has survived the entire contract with america and 12 years of republican control. so, you know, we are willing to reform it, but this is not necessary. so, vote no. >> gentleman yields back, i yield back, seeing any further recognition request, i see none. all in favor of the amendment say aye? >> aye. >> all those saying no say no. >> the nos appear to have it. the nos appear to have it. the nos do have it. amendment number 73 fails. do we have additional amendments for title number four and i wo
. >> i appreciate my friend from texas's concerns, i have to remind everyone that we have achieved a balance in the bill, and it's in the best interest of the bill and successful reform to maintain it. we have taken under consideration to try to achieve the balance and establish the minimum. the bill -- i realize we will fight on the skirmish line all the way back to atlanta, and we will, so with that, i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and in the spirit of the ranking member....
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the chair of the full committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and mr. chairman, i associate myself with year your opening statement. recent leaks of highly classified information poses serious threat to our national security and put the lives of americans and our allies at risk. national security experts from both republican and democratic administrations have expressed outrage over the leaks and the effect they have on ongoing and future intelligence operations. what sets these leaks apart from other leaks we have seen is that the media reports that many of these have come from highly placed administration officials. if true, this means that administration officials are weakening our national security and endangering american lives. national security operational details exist to meet the covert needs of the intelligence community that protects the american people. as fbi director muller recently testified, "leaks such as this threaten ongoing operations, puts at risk the lives of sources, makes it much more difficult to recruit sources, and dam
the chair of the full committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and mr. chairman, i associate myself with year your opening statement. recent leaks of highly classified information poses serious threat to our national security and put the lives of americans and our allies at risk. national security experts from both republican and democratic administrations have expressed outrage over the leaks and the effect they have on ongoing and future intelligence...
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and gentleman from texas reserves the point of order. the gentleman may explain his -- is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the purpose of the amendment is to get feedback on whether the reimbursement rates, the second secretary of agriculture uses for u.s. territories -- the secretary has the authority to set differentiates for alaska and hawaii and the territories, but he has only done so for alaska and hawaii. my amendment asks the secretary to report to the committee and to the committee of agriculture and forestry to show how the cost compares to the current reimbursement rates. of course, there's a discrepancy, we want want to find a reasonable adjustment, but this amendment makes to requirement in that respect. it simply means to get more information. and so, amendment number 95, will require, again, the secretary of agriculture to report to the house committee, on the cost of providing school lunches and other meals and supplements in the u.s. territories in comparison to the national reimbursement
and gentleman from texas reserves the point of order. the gentleman may explain his -- is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the purpose of the amendment is to get feedback on whether the reimbursement rates, the second secretary of agriculture uses for u.s. territories -- the secretary has the authority to set differentiates for alaska and hawaii and the territories, but he has only done so for alaska and hawaii. my amendment asks the secretary to report to...
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. >> houston, texas, nancy. independent line. >> caller: good morning. here's a question i have that i'm always curious about. has any study or comparison been done on the amount that it costs for emergency room services for the uninsured versus the amount of the subsidy that will be given with taxpayer money to various people to pay their insurance fees? >> i don't know that offhand. >> well, from a federal government point of view, when the cdl analyzed the health care legislation, they tried to account for all those, and so it's finding it slightly decreased the deficit. the cost of expansion covered by the cut, which included those kinds of effects. rockville, maryland, ben on the democratic line. >> let's suppose enough states the health care costs stay the same and if the extra -- the state received let's say 500 million out of the $10 billion health care budget, then will the hurricane companies sit there and say, okay, well everybody's premium is $40 a month more expensive because the states didn't receive that money. because the people who go to
. >> houston, texas, nancy. independent line. >> caller: good morning. here's a question i have that i'm always curious about. has any study or comparison been done on the amount that it costs for emergency room services for the uninsured versus the amount of the subsidy that will be given with taxpayer money to various people to pay their insurance fees? >> i don't know that offhand. >> well, from a federal government point of view, when the cdl analyzed the health care...
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the gentleman from texas. mr. conway. >> the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. i would oppose this. adding new complications to a program with limited funds, in my view, is not the right way to go at the time. i also heard my colleague say he wants to increase the program to $35 million. i'm not sheer he said where bewould get the other $10 million in the program. i would ask my colleagues not to support the program. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the other gentleman from texas. >> well, i appreciate -- >> move to strike the last word. >> strike the lard word. thank you. i appreciate the gentleman from new york's interest in broad band. i think it is important to have equal opportunity all over the country to make sure the whole country. i would love to work with you in the future on this issue. this ichb creases the authorization. the i.g. did update that report on february of 2011. it said three things. second point is funding competitive services rather than expanding to services to community without existing access. and the thir
the gentleman from texas. mr. conway. >> the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. i would oppose this. adding new complications to a program with limited funds, in my view, is not the right way to go at the time. i also heard my colleague say he wants to increase the program to $35 million. i'm not sheer he said where bewould get the other $10 million in the program. i would ask my colleagues not to support the program. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. the chair...
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but addition, it would help meet regulatory requirements and produce, for example, $3.5 billion in texas, $3.9 in pennsylvania and $2.3 million in ohio. i ask for an adoption of this amendment. >> the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. is there additional request for the gentleman from california? seeks recognition. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman is recognized. -- i would move to strike the last word. i would associate myself from mr. costa's remarks saying these dollars are an effort to allow farmers to deal with some of the burdens and regulations that they are saddled with. we all sat here previous months and meetings when we've tried to reign in and get epa to understand the plight of farmers. farmers are oftentimes are put at severe risk and burden under overregulation by this agency and this helps us comply with some federal mandates and i'd highly recommend that we adopt this measure that mr. costa has brought forward. thank you. >> the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes himself to strike the last word and is recognized for five minutes. equip is
but addition, it would help meet regulatory requirements and produce, for example, $3.5 billion in texas, $3.9 in pennsylvania and $2.3 million in ohio. i ask for an adoption of this amendment. >> the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. is there additional request for the gentleman from california? seeks recognition. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman is recognized. -- i would move to strike the last word. i would associate myself from mr. costa's remarks...
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., that apply properly and the folks in midland, texas, and the church in midland is very efficient. they have link with the other churches in town and they know the folks that need food help and those folks get it. they also know the folks who are trying to scam the system and they work to try to not let that happen as well. we don't have anything nearly that efficient within the program. our colleague mentioned the 3.8% air rate and that means we're wasting the fraud abuses a mere $4 billion, excuse me. that's a sizeable amount of money. >> would the gentleman yield? >> no. and so we're all going have to take a hard vote on this issue and we've looked at it and we've looked at the provisions and some of my colleagues would like to vote to try food stamp spending even more than the 16 that we proposed in this bill and i see it as a compromise to make sure we wind up with a bipartisan bill that comes up out of my committee. so these are targeted reductions that target folks who don't otherwise qualify to be on the programs and i'm hard pressed to offer the future americans that will
., that apply properly and the folks in midland, texas, and the church in midland is very efficient. they have link with the other churches in town and they know the folks that need food help and those folks get it. they also know the folks who are trying to scam the system and they work to try to not let that happen as well. we don't have anything nearly that efficient within the program. our colleague mentioned the 3.8% air rate and that means we're wasting the fraud abuses a mere $4 billion,...
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for what purpose does the gentleman of texas seek recognition. >> mr. chairman, it is not often i disagree with my good friend from iowa and we have the ranking member of the sub committee and i would urge opposition to the -- under the revenue program is because the revenue program protects against the county's crop revenue, not a farmer's crop revenue. without this provision of the bill a county would have a loss revenue, but the farmer if he was forced to be in the part of the county would have rain and is still collecting payment and that would make a bad news story and why does the price loss coverage need the same language? because the price loss coverage compares to the national average market price for the crop and the coverage is triggered. there's no distinction between the county and the producer. this kind of language is not appropriate and i urge the amendment be rejected. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. ranking member's recognized to strike the last word. >> chairman, move to strike the last word. >> the gentleman is recognized
for what purpose does the gentleman of texas seek recognition. >> mr. chairman, it is not often i disagree with my good friend from iowa and we have the ranking member of the sub committee and i would urge opposition to the -- under the revenue program is because the revenue program protects against the county's crop revenue, not a farmer's crop revenue. without this provision of the bill a county would have a loss revenue, but the farmer if he was forced to be in the part of the county...
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i believe the gentleman from texas, mr. naggerbauer, seeks recognition. >> i thank you, mr. chairman. we've been talking about families and families that are in it need, and you know, i want to tell you about another little family that's making $24,000 a year. unfortunately, this family is spending $37,000 a year, and so they're spending $13,000 more a year than they're making. and they just got their credit card statement the other day. and they found out that they owe $160,000 on their credit card. i think everybody would agree, that's a family that's got limited upside. unfortunately, the little family that i was just talking about is the united states of america. we have about $2.4 trillion in revenues, we're spending about $3.7 trillion. and what that little family is facing is what families all across the country are facing. we're going to have to make some tough choices. they cannot continue to sustain those kinds of deficits. this amendment, again, really begins to bring reform to a program that's expanding at an unsustainable rate. and if you don't do something appr
i believe the gentleman from texas, mr. naggerbauer, seeks recognition. >> i thank you, mr. chairman. we've been talking about families and families that are in it need, and you know, i want to tell you about another little family that's making $24,000 a year. unfortunately, this family is spending $37,000 a year, and so they're spending $13,000 more a year than they're making. and they just got their credit card statement the other day. and they found out that they owe $160,000 on their...
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congressman louie gohmert of texas, congressman trent franks, lynn westmoreland of florida and congressman tom rooney of florida have taken a very courageous step calling for formal investigations on the basis of our course. for the inspectors general of five departments to look into these people and the role they have playing inside the wire and the extent to which is having a subversive effect on policy. they have been asked to report back by the middle of september. i hope they will, and if they don't, we better be holding them accountable and hoping that there will be congressional inquiries made in these areas as well. next slide. [ applause ] i feel constrained to tell you very quickly that this problem is not unique to the obama administration. next slide, please. the penetration began before it came to office. it has enabled it to be as dangerous as it is though. next slide, please. started in a serious way in the clinton administration. you know the two guys on the ends. the guy in the middle, you may not know, though he's actually a resident at the moment of this fair state. yes,
congressman louie gohmert of texas, congressman trent franks, lynn westmoreland of florida and congressman tom rooney of florida have taken a very courageous step calling for formal investigations on the basis of our course. for the inspectors general of five departments to look into these people and the role they have playing inside the wire and the extent to which is having a subversive effect on policy. they have been asked to report back by the middle of september. i hope they will, and if...
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santorum who was part of last year's terrific doubleheader on opening night, along with the governor of texas, rick perry. if you're anything like me, and you live in colorado and you participated in our caucuses in february, you were gratified to help senator santorum win a dramatic upset and sweep those caucuses. if you're anything like me, you've been also gratified to see him strongly fall in behind the imperative to replace barack obama with a conservative minded republican such as mitt romney. we're pleased that senator santorum has sent us a special video message to the summit this year, since he and karen had hoped to attend in person, but they're on a well earned family vacation this week. let's hear now from senator rick santorum by video. >> i'm sorry i can't be with you at the western conservative summit. i certainly enjoyed my time there last year, and i greatly appreciated the warm welcome and response that i get at the summit. more importantly i just want to thank all the folks of colorado for the wonderful surprise, i think, of all of the states that we ended up winning, we wo
santorum who was part of last year's terrific doubleheader on opening night, along with the governor of texas, rick perry. if you're anything like me, and you live in colorado and you participated in our caucuses in february, you were gratified to help senator santorum win a dramatic upset and sweep those caucuses. if you're anything like me, you've been also gratified to see him strongly fall in behind the imperative to replace barack obama with a conservative minded republican such as mitt...
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for what purpose is the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> the gentleman is recognized for five minute. >> i, too, oppose this amendment and words matter and my colleague recalls modest reform and i believe it is anything but a modest reform. this amendment is unnecessary and i would argue unfair. my colleague makes a comment that we didn't discuss sugar audits because quite frankly no one asked to talk about it and it doesn't cost anything over the past ten years and we don't expect it to cost the taxpayers in the last ten years and this issue has come up in the last several weeks and no one had asked about it. and the program does work. one of the points my colleagues make is it reduces supplies of sugar or holds down supply. the world, the world agriculture supply is predicting a 1.8 million tons of excess sugar in the market this year and it's enough for 12 points for every man, woman and child in america and they're expecting huge supplies as well and they have to compete in the face of that. they also argue it's a jobs issue and quit
for what purpose is the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> the gentleman is recognized for five minute. >> i, too, oppose this amendment and words matter and my colleague recalls modest reform and i believe it is anything but a modest reform. this amendment is unnecessary and i would argue unfair. my colleague makes a comment that we didn't discuss sugar audits because quite frankly no one asked to talk about it and it doesn't cost anything over the past ten years and we...
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smith, i did -- back in texas, i was in these halls for two occasions. one was goldwater/nichols. another was for the act in 1994. both were landmark legislation, both accompanied by a great degree of rigor, intellectual, every other way, analytical, to make sure the laws are being looked at, being analyzed correctly. with goldwater/nichols, the defense organization was the oldest game in the town save one other. it was looked at time again. finally people said, we need to address this law, here's why. with the acquisition streamlining act we looked at 800 laws and said here is how defense procurement can be improved. here's how and why, statute by statute. that was done. by the way, that statute that was passed in 1994 is still the leading statute for defense today. so there's every means and every i think incentive for this committee to look carefully at the espionage act. mr. conyers, you are absolutely correct, sir, it was passed -- world war i legislation. industrial age. we're now in an information age. what do you do when you've got open source intelligence? i defended the
smith, i did -- back in texas, i was in these halls for two occasions. one was goldwater/nichols. another was for the act in 1994. both were landmark legislation, both accompanied by a great degree of rigor, intellectual, every other way, analytical, to make sure the laws are being looked at, being analyzed correctly. with goldwater/nichols, the defense organization was the oldest game in the town save one other. it was looked at time again. finally people said, we need to address this law,...